a group that provides buglers to sound “Taps” at military funerals. The group was formed in 2000 so burial details have an alternative to using recordings of the music at military funerals.

real buglers play at only a small percentage of military funerals. Instead, taps blares from a CD player or a device called a ceremonial bugle, which is a real bugle containing a battery-powered ...

Because of the budget cuts, New York State as of Oct. 1 will no longer hire musicians to play "Taps" on trumpets or bugles at the more than 300 military funerals per month staffed by the Honor Guard.

The bugle call known as “taps” is thought to be a revision of a French bugle signal, ... Army infantry regulations by 1891 required taps to be played at military funeral ceremonies.

But considering Massari, 79, has performed “on and off” — mostly on — at area military funerals ... the bugler,” Massari said. He laments that few people are still performing taps.

Bugler Lou DiLeo plays taps at Calverton National Cemetery in Calverton. Cuts by the New York National Guard to funding for civilian contractors who staff military funerals will eliminate the ...

While it's not quite time to play "Taps" for the Army bugler, Uncle Sam is having a hard time finding enough musicians to play the ceremonial honor at an increasing number of military funerals.

A shortage of buglers -- leading to digital recordings ... After retiring from the Air Force, Baldo occasionally played Taps at military funerals. Then he heard about the boomboxes.

There are certain standards for a military funeral: the three-volley rifle salute, the flag folding and presentation, and the sounding of taps. But this week, live buglers in Missouri were silenced.

Every morning before work, and before sunrise, David Dodson sits in his car, garage door closed, and practices playing his trumpet for 30 minutes.

The languid, melancholy sound of a bugle call is a fixture at military funerals. But it wasn't always that way. The song taps used to signal 'lights out' for soldiers to go to sleep. Taps ...

Military Funeral Honors are available for ... When available taps will be played by a bugler, however there are so few buglers available that the military services may choose to provide an ...